CHARLES MESSIER

Domain	Definition
Astronomy	While hunting for comets in the skies above France, 18th century astronomer Charles Messier made a list of the positions of about 100 fuzzy, diffuse looking objects which appeared at fixed positions in the sky. Although these objects looked like comets, Messier knew that since they did not move with respect to the background stars they could not be the undiscovered comets he was searching for. These objects are now well known to modern astronomers to be among the brightest and most striking gaseous nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies. Objects on Messier's list are still referred to by their "Messier number". For example the Andromeda Galaxy, the 31st object on the list, is known as M31. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Charles Messier

Charles Messier, (June 26 1730 - April 12 1817) was a French astronomer who created the catalogue of 110 deep sky objects (nebulae and star clusters) (the 'Messier objects') that bears his name. This catalogue was first published in 1774. The Messier objects were numbered M1 to M110, and often are still known under those designations.

His purpose in creating the catalog was to help comet hunters (like Messier himself) and other naked-eye observers to distinguish between permanent and transient objects.

External link

http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/history/CMessier.html

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